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grasshopper

fairy chess piece; moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (like a queen) but only by hopping over another piece; if there is no piece to hop over, it cannot move
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grasshopper

Summary

grasshopper ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • grasshopper is credited with the discovery of Thomas Rayner Dawson[2].
  • grasshopper's subclass of is recorded as fairy chess piece[3].
  • +1913-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of grasshopper[4].
  • grasshopper's sport is recorded as grasshopper chess[5].
  • grasshopper's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vkf0p[6].
  • grasshopper's described at URL is recorded as http://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/grasshopper.html[7].

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Works and Contributions

grasshopper is credited with the discovery of Thomas Rayner Dawson[2].

Why It Matters

grasshopper ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[1] grasshopper has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] grasshopper is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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